Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com .

About Parametric

Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what’s important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients’ core holdings.

This role is part of Parametric’s hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

About Team

The Quality Assurance team at Parametric:

• We work among agile development/delivery teams to test and deliver custom software used by Parametric business users and customers
• We are integral to ensuring software and system quality through understanding business requirements, test planning, test automation, test execution and acceptance testing

About The Role

We are looking for an individual that has a strong curiosity and passion for learning new things, while focused on meeting or exceeding client expectations. The Lead Software Engineer in Test (SDET) will be responsible for developing and supporting the firm’s primary public web site as well as the firm’s intranet portal. The Lead SDET will also be responsible for managing the QA function and driving test automation initiatives for multiple projects / programs within the department.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and manage QA teams within the department to deliver successful projects and releases, following and establishing best practice QA processes and tooling.
• Own entire Software Testing Lifecycle including functional, regression, and performance testing.
• Build and execute a QA Strategy focused on early test automation adoption, and use of tooling and practices to ensure the product quality and agility in releases.
• Collaborate and be an integral part of the development team to influence Quality control through our projects and sprints. Oversee our SDLC for engagement between Product Owners, developers, and testers.
• Manage our Test Automation frameworks, tooling, and best practices to drive QA processes that are agile and fully integrated as part of the overall development cycle.
• Create and enforce a robust governance process for the QA teams, business sponsors, developers and production management teams to follow to ensure high quality code is delivered in a timely manner.
• Establish measurable KPIs and transparent QA processes to demonstrate efficiency and test coverage.
• Manage our test environments (QA and UAT) on behalf of your testing needs.

SKILL SET

Required Experience: 12+ years

Skill set: Test Automation, Test Planning / Manual Testing / Exploratory Testing

Primary Skills

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 12+ years’ QA and Test Development experience
• Expertise as a QA lead
• Must have exposure or experience to light weight Agile Testing practice, AI in software testing and creation/adoption to No Code/ Low Code test tools
• An understanding of Accessibility requirements for a public website and automated and manual accessibility tools and testing.
• Hands on experience with test automation framework design and development, preferably BDD based automation frameworks.
• Hands on experience using Selenium for UI automation development.
• Experience with tools and frameworks for backend / API automation, ability to leverage industry leading tools and technology to setup and efficient test automation stack.
• Experience with Performance Testing tooling/practices.
• Exposure to DevOps practices such as pipelines and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery.
• Reliability. We value you as a contributor individually and as a member of a team across multiple locations.
• Show ability to adapt, troubleshoot, solve problems, exercise judgement, and be open and willing to grow.

Good To Have Skills

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
• Experience with Financial services industry

Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.

What You Can Expect From Morgan Stanley

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years. Our values – putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back – aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what’s best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.